Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Fest.) Antiochus, _Linn. Mant._ 1. 537. _Drury_, _App.
vol._ 3. _Fabricius Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 44. _No._ 134. _Don. Ins.
China_, _pl._
Papilio Eupalemon, _Cramer_, _tab._ 143. _fig._ B. C. _Le Velonté
Daubenton pl. Eulum_. 68. _f._ 3. 4.
HABITAT: Brazil.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ, head, thorax, and abdomen black. Wings fine
velvety black. An orange-coloured bar, about one-fourth of an inch broad,
rises in the middle of the superior wings, running circularly and
crossing the inferior ones, meeting about the middle of the abdominal
edges.
_Under Side._ Palpi white. Tongue brown. Breast and legs white. Abdomen
yellow-brown. Wings shining brown, exhibiting various shades of
changeable colours; the tips terminating in an ash colour. Wings scarcely
dentated.
Donovan has, in like manner, introduced this species into his work on the
insects of China.
HIPPARCHIA CLUENA.
Plate VII. fig. 5, 6.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. HIPPARCHIA, _Fabr._ Satyrus, _Latr._ Papilio (Nymph. Phal.),
_Drury_.
HIPPARCHIA CLUENA. Alis teneris, cinerascenti-violaceis, posticis
dentatis utrinque ocellis quinque atris, subtùs lineis tribus fasciâque
brunneis a costâ anticarum deductis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Cluena, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.
Papilio (Satyrus) Clueria, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 229. _No._
716. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 492.
HABITAT: Brazil. "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1775" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ brown. Thorax and abdomen grey-brown. Wings blueish
grey-brown, with two narrow dark lines crossing the anterior ones from
the anterior to the posterior edges; one in the middle of the wings, the
other near the thorax; the posterior ones having five oval eyes placed
near the external edges, the pupil being white, the iris dark, almost
black.
_Under Side._ Palpi, legs, breast, and abdomen grey. Wings blueish
flesh-colour, with a line crossing them, rising at a small distance from
the tips, ending a little above the abdominal corners, {10}the external
part of it being brown. A small eye is placed near the tips of the
superior ones, having a black and yellow iris and white pupil. Five eyes
of the same kind are also placed on the inferior ones along the external
edges. Margins of the wings slightly dentated.
PLATE VIII.
[Illustration]
NYMPHALIS ARETHUSA.
Plate VIII. fig. 1, 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.), _Drury_.
NYMPHALIS ARETHUSA. Alis integris suprà nitidè atris, virescenti-coeruleo
multimaculatis; posticis subtùs punctis baseos angulique ani rubris
[male]. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio Arethusa, _Cramer_, _pl._ 77. E. F. ([male].) _pl._ 130.
_fig._ A. ([female] Pap. Laodamia.) _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 43.
_No._ 130.
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